The Daily WTF Mike was refactoring an old web application written in Perl. We joke about Perl being a “write only language,” but the
The Daily WTF This week we received a plethora of failed text substitutions. I’d like to find a pithy name for this sort of error;
The Daily WTF Typos are the bane of delevopers’ existence. For most of our typos, the result is a syntax error. It’s quick and easy
The Daily WTF There are common errors that are (or were) once so common that we’ve built tools to help us avoid them. So I was a little
The Daily WTF David‘s organization didn’t fully understand why you bring interns into a company. The purpose of an internship is to
The Daily WTF Sometimes, you see a code sample and you almost scroll by. “This isn’t bad, I see it all the time.” So it took a
The Daily WTF From our readers this week, we have a couple of mixed numbers. David B even gets a twofer. Trainspotter Daniel notes “The
The Daily WTF “John Doe” was asked to take a look at a slow-running application. It didn’t take too long to discover that the
The Daily WTF Moz works for a company that needs to handle financial transactions. They use Delphi, which has a handy-dandy fixed precision
The Daily WTF As frequently stated, concurrency is hard. Ensuring that all of your data is accessed in a threadsafe manner is a real challenge.